Kelp Releases “Understandably, For it is I, The Piraputanga Fish”
This song joins Kelp’s 2024 release Apartment Overlooking a Dual Carriage Way Outside Charleroi as the 2nd release from a forthcoming album. The album will appear first as the soundtrack to an animated film Kelp is producing that is rumoured to be out before 2026.
“Understandably, For it is I, The Piraputanga Fish” is a straight bossa nova tune with Kelp’s signature vocoder/talk box vocal, whirring and buzzing strange and pensive lyrics through intricate chord progressions.
The meaning behind the song pertains to the unusual activity of the piraputanga fish. A unique species native to Brazil (hence the bossa nova) that jumps out of the river to feed on overhanging berries. The focus here being, a creature that must literally become a fish out of water just to survive.
Kelp is the unsung hero, or perhaps the unsing hero..
"I wanna be the last word in neo-vaporwave-electro-funk, .. and the first.. well, I don't want to.. but they're forcing my hand"
Kelp, also known as Jordie Sunshine, is the Belfast, North of Ireland based, talk box yielding, experimental electronic and symphonic pop, HD bedroom producer and songster extraordinaire. Plucked from the void in the peak-plague days of 2020, Kelp has given us 13 singles and 3 EPs so far, with most notably ‘Lamentation’ and ‘Shady Palms’ making their way on to Tom Robinson's Mixtape on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Kelp's latest offering appeared in the form of a seminal live show in Belfast city center, considered to be a world's first in AR/VR live entertainment and electro-funk cover versions of the original 1987 'Fireman Sam' theme. Up next an animated film with the soundtrack doubling up as the debut album.
